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shipmates

shipmates is the plural of shipmate.

Meaning of shipmate

Noun

shipmate (plural shipmates)

  1. A fellow sailor serving on the same ship as another.
    • "And who else?" returned the other, getting more at his ease. "Black Dog as ever was, come for to see his old shipmate Billy, at the 'Admiral Benbow' inn. Ah, Bill, Bill, we have seen a sight of times, us two, since I lost them two talons," holding up his mutilated hand.1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC
  2. (informal) Any sailor (when used as a form of address by a sailor).

Questions about shipmates

What is shipmates the plural of?
Shipmates is the plural of shipmate.

Words near shipmates in the dictionary

  1. shipmast
  2. shipmaster
  3. shipmasters
  4. shipmasts
  5. shipmate
  6. shipmates
  7. shipmen
  8. shipment
  9. shipments
  10. shipmind
  11. shipminds

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